EVALUATION METHOD OF HARMONY OF TASTE AND AROMA

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique identifying effect brought by integration of taste and aroma by an objective technique when a component only for aroma is added to a component only for taste.SOLUTION: An evaluation method of a level of harmony acquired by integration of taste brought by a taste composition and aroma brought by an aroma composition comprises: a step (1) of preparing the taste composition; a step (2) of preparing the aroma composition; a step (3) of making examinee eat and drink the taste composition alone and a combination of the taste composition and the aroma composition as a flavor composition; a step (4) of measuring biological signal of the examinee in the step (3); and a step (5) of evaluating a level of the harmony acquired by the integration of the taste brought by the taste composition and the aroma brought by the aroma composition on the basis of a response intensity ratio of the biological signal in eating and drinking the taste composition and the biological signal in eating and drinking the flavor composition in the step (4).